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Ive been using flashprint for a long while but after getting a new printer that slicer just wansnt cutting it anymore. So i dowloaded cura. But I can not find my printer in the program. I can not find my other one either a flashforge adventurer 3. Doi have to make a custom one because I looked it up on youtube and google and found lots of profiles and tips for my printer on cura so people are using it here
Did you have any luck? I found a profile for the non pro on thingiverse, but it does not print well, for instance left extruder heats up and right extruder is used none heated. I manually edited gcode and realised there was a discrepancy between the numbers (.0 used on left not right) so this meant both extruders heated, but the print doesn't stick to the bed at all.
Looks like I'll be doing a lot of digging if no one has got it working yet!
The 4.x versions of Cura have a plugin in the marketplace for Flashforge printers. I really don't know anything about it but I followed the link for "Ronoaldo Consulting" to THIS GITHUB PAGE. There is also THIS PAGE.
When Cura was moved from the Qt5 controls and dialogs to Qt6 most of the marketplace plugins needed to reworked. That may be why it isn't available yet in the 5.x versions of Cura. It's something you can look into though.
Sorry.. completely new to linux so go easy.. and none of the .man threads seem to make any sense to me. I have downloaded the flashprint 3d software from flashforge and within the zip file (extracted within the download folder) is a single .man file. I have no idea how to run or install it, any help much appreciated.
I was able to install the .man file by simply changing the name of it from .man to .deb (I am running PopOS, which is largely based on Ubuntu.), and my system immediately recognized it as a Debian binary.
There are multiple different packages to download. Select the app you want. There will be multiple versions. Look for the version which is described as "Support System: Linux64" if you have Ubuntu 64-bit or "Support System: Linux 32 if you have a 32-bit version of Ubuntu. Click on its download button to the right.
A ZIP file will download. Extract the .tar file underneath the .man file in that ZIP file. There are two folders underneath . "a dot" which are etc and usr - each with subdirectories beneath them.
There's a PDF file with instructions under *usr\share\FlashPrint\doc* named Flashprint-UserGuide-en_US.pdf (plus versions for Taiwan and Mainland China, named appropriately). Follow those instructions, which vary according the the model of printer you have.
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